Mar 25
(Part 3 of the Bhutan Trek Series)Go back to Part 2…. Continuing Up the Paro Valley After a wet, snowy first day trekking up the Paro Valley—and an even colder night sleeping in the tent—we woke to a simple but welcome breakfast prepared over a campfire at the stone hut in Thang Thanka. The snow …
Mar 16
(Part 2 of the Bhutan Trek Series from our trip in March 2019)For Part 1, see the post Turning 50 in the Himalayas: Our Trekking Adventure in Bhutan first The next morning, we left the comfort of Hotel Olathang behind and set out for the real adventure. For the next week we would be trekking …
Mar 09
Intro The plane banked sharply between two mountains as we descended toward the tiny airport in Paro, Bhutan. For a moment it felt like the wing might scrape the cliffs. That’s when it really hit us. We were about to begin an 11-day trekking adventure into the Himalayas. Bhutan had been on our bucket list …
Jan 14
2019 has been fully laid out for me already. The biggest change is that I will NOT being doing a full Ironman distance event this year. It will be the first time in the last 6 years that I have not. However, I will be doing 2 Ironman 70.3 events and a few other smaller …
